He is finally using RPM however it is 15l gauge, which is not available to the public. strung a few of his frames at Indian Wells and inspected it with a fine toothed comb. Let's all move on with our lives.....

He is finally using RPM however it is 15l gauge, which is not available to the public. strung a few of his frames at Indian Wells and inspected it with a fine toothed comb. Let's all move on with our lives.....

He isn't using any of the string that babolat sells to public, since 3 years ago.
Any time that he use one local string service, Tony don't wanna talk about it... many many time people have already ask him about that string ... and he just run away from answering...

So, that comment is right about it.

There's so many things in strings and in rackets, that customers don't even really get a clue about it.
And that "pro stock" material will never be released to public.

He isn't using any of the string that babolat sells to public, since 3 years ago.
Any time that he use one local string service, Tony don't wanna talk about it... many many time people have already ask him about that string ... and he just run away from answering...

So, that comment is right about it.

There's so many things in strings and in rackets, that customers don't even really get a clue about it.
And that "pro stock" material will never be released to public.

Belive it or not.

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Sounds like this is some cheap discontinued nylon from way back. It's like admitting that pros use paintjobs of models introduced 20 years ago.

There's about 15 different members who just went along with the idea that the commentator knew what he was talking about. I don't remember the term, but it could be "cover commentator" but there's a good amount of commentators who commentate non mainstream / niche sports (tennis is included as one of them) who don't actually know anything of the sport, they don't follow it and aren't experts at it - but are good enough at commentating that they can fill in the blanks with enough pre-scripted general knowledge that it won't hurt the sportscast. Most of what the commentators say (if not those are or were directly involved with tennis such as the good group at ESPN where B. Gilbert was a coach as well as Cahill) don't really know much of the sport and especially the underlining niches beyond what "notes" they were given before hand. Hannah Storm and Mike Tirico (Basketball) did a few Wimbledon and US Open broadcasts for NBC. And I've noticed that a lot of the aussies were cover commentators for the Aussie Open. You get a lot of them during the smaller tournies but I've noticed there's even an abundance of them during many european sportscasts that are on euro stations that I illegally stream.

So, don't trust what the commentators say, because a lot of them are talking off their arse and a lot don't know what they are saying or misinformed. Do you really think they go to the locker-rooms and talk to the players and do research from first hand insiders? No. Most of the time these people are guessing and sadly enough there's people here on TT that know more than what I've heard cited on many big channels and big events.
Oddly enough I believe some commentators who are actually interested in the sport (tennis) go here and other forums for their "notes" before having to cover a match. I've heard topics brought up here that I later hear spoken on the telecast, but it was so specific that I don't think the commentator could have thought that up himself without mentioning the note from what I read earlier here.